Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Lear, Linda J - 1997-09-01

Holt & Company, Henry. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Holt & Company, Henry. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Henry Holt & Company, 1997-09. Hardcover. Good.

Henry Holt & Co. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling & toning, in a mylar cover.

Henry Holt & Co. hardcover. Gifting inscription/Dust jacket in mylar cover. 6x1x9.

Henry Holt, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. First printing, very good + hardcover shows a green remainder mark at top page edges, name at top of front pastedown and som eother light trace wear, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows mild bit of wrinkling at spine tail and wrinkling at bottom corner of front flap. 634 pages with a set of black & white plates and index. Still an attractive copy of this "..definitive biography of the courageous ecologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring began a movement that transformed the way we understand ourselves and the living world.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Henry Holt & Co, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Ex-Library Rachel Carson, 1907-1964, the courageous ecologist and nature writer whose book "The Silent Spring" began a movement that transformed the way we understand our living world and our relationship to it. First Edition. Hardcover Retired Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Binding of grey half cloth gilt titled on spine, with blue paper-covered boards, very clean and unmarked, can't see any wear under attached jacket. Sewn binding tight and solid. Library markings limited to stamps on endpaper and small blue stamp on text block edges. Internals quite clean, no markings on text pages of any kind, Large heavy book, square, sharp corners. Frontis: photograph of Rachel Carson. 32 plates consisting of 66 photographic illustrations of Carson, her family, friends, and associates, and events surrounding her life. 634 pages with Afterword, Abbreviations Code, Chapter… Read More

New York: Henry Holt & Co. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805034277 . Full number line. ; 634 pages .

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xviii, 634 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A long-overdue biography of the courageous woman whose landmark book, SILENT SPRING, changed how we think about the world we live in. Based on personal documents and reminiscences previously unavailable, this book illuminates Carson's personal life as well as her contribution to the contemporary environmental movement. The biography of the ecologist and nature writer whose book "Silent Spring" began a movement that transformed the way we understand ourselves and the living world. Carson blew the whistle on the petro-chemical industry at a time when pesticides were regarded as a miracle cure all. When "Silent Spring" appeared in 1962 it did more than any single publication or event to alert the world to the hazards of enviromental pollution.